Booktopia - Implementing Automated Software Testing: How to Save Time and Lower Costs While Raising Quality, Dustin Elfriede, 9780321580511

Implementing Automated Software Testing: How to Save Time and Lower Costs While Raising Quality

By: Dustin Elfriede, Thom Garrett, Bernie Gauf, Thomas Garrett

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ISBN: 9780321580511

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Published: March 2009

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Preface Chapter 1: What is Automated Software Testing (AST) 1.1 Automated Software Testing Definition 1.2 Automated Software Testing Recipes 1.3 Advances in Automated Software Testing Technologies 1.4 Automating various Software Testing Types 1.5 Providing Automated Software Testing Based Production Support 1.6 Automating Standards Assessments 1.7 Summary References Chapter 2: Why Automate? 2.1 The Challenges of Testing Software Today 2.2 Reducing the Time and Cost of Software Testing 2.3 Impacting Software Quality 2.4 Improvements to Your Software Test Program 2.5 Summary Chapter 3: The Business Case 3.1 Definition of the Business Case 3.2 Identifying the Business Needs 3.3. Justifying it in Terms of Cost and Benefits 3.4 Risks 3.5 Other Considerations 3.6 Summary Chapter 4: Why does Automated Software Testing Fail and Pitfalls to Avoid 4.1 Research and Development does not generally focus on automated or manual testing efforts 4.2 Automated Software Testing Myths and Realities 4.4 Lack of Software Development Considerations for Automated Software Testing 4.5 The Forest for the Trees-Not knowing which tool to pick 4.6 Lack of Automation Standards across tool vendors 4.7 Lack of Business Case 4.8 Summary Chapter 5: Key 1-Know Your Requirements 5.1 Information Gathering and Development 5.2 When Information Is Not Available 5.3 Start Implementing Your Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) 5.4 Summary Chapter 6: Key 2-Develop the Automated Test Strategy 6.1 Overview 6.2 Scope and Automated Test Objectives 6.3 Identify Approach 6.4 Automated Test Management Framework 6.5 Automated Test Environment Management 6.6 Testing Environment / Configuration Chapter 7: Key 3-Document and Peer-review Test Cases 7.1 Documenting Test Cases 7.2 Requirements Check 7.3 Review Test Cases 7.4 Example Test Cases Chapter 8: Key 4-Continuously Track Progress-And Adjust Accordingly 8.1 Automated Testing Metrics 8.2 Other Software Testing Metrics 8.3 Summary Chapter 9: Key 5-Implement Automated Software Testing Processes 9.1 Automated Software Testing Phase 1: Requirements Gathering-Analyze Automated Testing Needs 9.2 Automated Software Testing Phase 2: Manual Test Case Development and Review 9.3 Automated Software Testing Phase 3: Automated Framework and Test Script Development 9.4 Automated Software Testing Phase 4: Automated Test Execution and Results Reporting 9.5 Automated Software Testing Phase 5: Program Review and Assessment Chapter 10: Key 6-Putting the Right People on the Project-Knowing the Skill Sets Required 10.1 Program Management 10.2 System Engineering 10.3 Software Development 10.4 Configuration Management 10.5 Quality Assurance 10.6 Summary Index